Evaporator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

FRANKLIN S. HARMAN, OF UOLLINSVILLE, TEXAS.

EVA PO RATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2.36,946, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed December 1, 18H0. (No model.)

To alta/'hom 'it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN S. HARMAN, of Collinsville, in the county of Grayson and State lof Texas have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Evaporators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, whice will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication.

Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View taken through the furnace, .with the car in position, and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional VleW.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters of reference.

This invention relates to sugar boilers or evaporators; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A represents the body of the boiler or evaporator, which is provided at the ends with brackets B B, having bearings C for axles D D, carry ing upon their ends wheels E E. The boiler being thus mounted may be readily rolled from place to place with the sirup, which makes lit far more conveniently placed over or removed from the furnace than the simple pan-boilers now in use, which have to be lifted oi` and on.

`In the ground adjoining the sides of thefurnace I propose to dig four inclines or holes to accommodate the wheels of the boiler, lenabling the latter to rest steady upon the furnace.

The brackets B B are preferably secured upon the sides of the pan or boiler iu bails F F, in which they are longitudinally adjustable by set-screws G G. By this arrangement the front and rear wheels may be adjusted any desired distance apart, which, when the device is placed in the inclines adjoining the furnace, causes the pan to be adjusted upon or any distance above the furnace that may be desired and previously calculated.

A lever and chain may be attached to the axle of the pan for the purpose of lifting the evaporator o the furnace when the sirup boils and is ready to be rolled olf.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent y of the United States- I 1. The combination, with an evaporatingpan mounted upon wheels or rollers, of a furnace provided with inclined holes adjoining its sides to accommodate the wheels of the evaporator, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the pan A, having longitudinally-adjustable brackets B B, provided with axles D D, carrying wheels E E, of a furnace provided with inclined holes adjoining its sides, substantially as and for the purpose shown and specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

1 FRANKLIN S. HARMAN.

Witnesses F. PELPHEEY, A. T. PELPHRY. 

